Here’s the plan: I want us to declare an exclusively Central New York holiday observed on the first day of the year that reaches 65 degrees. Obviously, the day will occur on different days each year — sometimes as early as March, other times not until ... let’s not go there now. I want to keep this positive.

Anyway, we’ll call it Done Day, as in the first day that Winter is absolutely, irrefutably, 100 percent done (unless it turns out it isn’t).

Why 65 degrees? Because 65 is perfectly pleasant to almost everyone. It means T-shirt weather — real T-shirt weather, not the poverty-of-low-expectations T-shirt weather that causes Syracuse University students to walk around in gym shorts because 27 feels balmy after a week of single digits.

When it’s 65 out, even the most jaded of us have to acknowledge that we did it, we survived another winter — and not just any winter this time. To date, Syracuse has received 4,692 feet of snow this season. The average temperature has been minus 130 degrees. There have been exactly eight minutes of sunlight. It’s been awful.

But we’re almost in a better place. In just three-and-a-half weeks, on April 13, the Beaver Lake Nature Center is “offering an opportunity to observe and listen to the sounds of the woodcock during his courting season. Other voices heard at dusk include those of the snipe and the spring peeper.”

If the insistent chirp of a randy woodcock doesn’t scream Mud Season, I mean spring, what does?

OK then: How do we actually pull this off?

First, we’ll need a regional warning system that a 65-degree day is imminent. This newspaper has agreed to alert readers of the impending milestone and declare the exact date of Done Day in advance. Also, you can tune to cable news channel YNN, which provides updated weather forecasts every 4.2 seconds, to learn if a 65-degree day is in store.

Once we’ve settled on the date, the following protocols should be observed throughout the four-county area:

• Men, including presiding judges, surgeons and commercial airline pilots, should wear Hawaiian shirts, shorts and flip-flops. Women should don elaborate sun hats similar to what is typically worn at the Kentucky Derby. When appropriate, women should wear bikinis.

• Bars should serve a Done Day drink special with a warm-weather theme. Sex-crazed Woodcock on a Beach and Jordan-Elbridge Wallbanger are two possibilities.

• Employers should let workers dress casually and leave early to enjoy the warmth.

It should be incumbent upon employees to inform their bosses in advance of their desire to participate in Done Day festivities. A simple note should suffice. Sample note:

Dear Speaker Silver,

In the interest of improving morale, I ,(name here), request that I be allowed to ignore the dress code, goof off and leave work early so that I may participate in Central New York Done Day observances, which may include drinking and various activities related to the spring peeper. In other words, it will be a day much like any other day minus the suit. Thanks. Assemblyman (Fill in Blank)

• The Grand Marshal of the parade will be me, Jeff Kramer. My official title will be Supreme Done Day Commander And Vernal Woodcock.

Of course, you’re free to introduce your own Done Day traditions. Maybe Done Day will be the day you finally take off the snow tires. Or buy flowers just because you can. Or fire up the backyard barbecue for the first time since Labor Day. Or shave.

Imagine how good 65 degrees will feel. Let’s get out there and party! Just remember: Dramatic temperature swings occur frequently this time of year in Central New York. Revelers should be prepared for dangerous winds, hail and sudden accumulations of snow of up to 3 feet.